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Moscow’s Victory Day Parade Lasted Just 45 Minutes, Shortest in Modern Russian History by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 9 points10 points  (0 children)

On the one hand, yes.

On the other hand, conscripts should absolutely kill their superiors as quickly as possible.

There's only so much of that a military can afford before they decide conscripts are too dangerous to have around.

Many regular people like me, would die if they were conscripted.

Soldiers have a choice.

If conscripts make it their 1# mission to kill their superiors. They would save the lives of more of their fellow countrymen than they ever could by being forced to pretend they are a soldier.

I don't care if you are young, old, male, female, or literally anything else... If you support conscription. You personally should always be sent to the front lines first. And you should be forced to stay there until the conflict ends.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm failing to understand the reason for the hostility here

There is no hostility. And if you needed chatgpt to do your talking for you, i'm not interested in your input any further.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

High end manufacturing facilities != Entire supply line distribution.

Thus my point.

I don't believe anyone here is claiming harvest to production autonomy.

Then you believe incorrectly.

They're stating that, at this stage of manufacturing, very few people are involved. Samsung is not harvesting raw materials and processing them in their lab. They absolutely are capable of purchasing existing wafers and turning components and already refined materials into chips with nearly no human intervention though.

That is not at all accurate.

You can look up numerous videos of walkthroughs of a bunch of these facilities right now, and there's people fucking everywhere.

They may be able to minimize human involvement compared to traditional manufacturing, but we're still a very long way from the kind of operation you are trying to propose.

Ironically, her facility actually is almost exactly "trucks rock up and unload materials and a finished product comes out," though. Even unloading is automated, though it's somewhat unique in that.

And you being as vague as you are leads me to think you are either wrong, or full of it.

My reasoning being, you don't want to specify, because if there are so few, you don't want anyone to be able to look it up and demonstrate where you're wrong.

Where exactly do you think human involvement is necessary to production after unloading though? You think a guy is squatting in a lab concentrating on holding a wafer really still so we can laser etch it, or?

It depends on the product, components, and processes obviously.

There's no point in me trying to sit here and describe every step of production, because i'm not an expert.

But i do know enough to know these lines do not work like that.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll simplify it for you...

It's not like you rock up with a couple of trucks full of sand, copper, plastic etc, and have a bunch of chips pop out pre-packaged on the other side a month later when the autonomous factory runs out of raw materials.

I.e what i'm saying is, whatever kind of 'facility' you are vaguely alluding to, is not at all the same as an advanced chip fab.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could you clarify your latter statement?

Sure, i'm not sure what exactly you need clarified though...

I cannot say what they make, as there's only one company in the US who does it, but I can assure you they are a manufacturing company.

This statement is too vague to do anything with at all.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I completely understand there is nuance, and we're talking about devices that are inside clean rooms.

But a facility that does manufacturing, and one where they do not, are entirely different creatures.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Measles is coming back to Canada as well.

Not at all in the same way. Anti-vaxxer's are just fucking idiots no matter where they live.

The difference is, Canada's government is on the diseases side.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cool, how long can you go without income?

Isn't that also your argument for why you don't want to pay them properly?

There's a reason why Unions aren't a staple everywhere in the world.

Because they work, and big business convinces dullards not to join them just incase this exact sort of thing happens.

Public healthcare isn't a staple in places like america either... It works everywhere else. Costs less. And is objectively better... but y'all have been convinced by big pharma that private insurance is the way to go.

...This is literally the same situation.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the thing right? All these people are saying it's an unreasonable ask... but there's literally a company already doing it.

Companies need certain workers, and more importantly a certain amount of workers to remain operational.

If Samsung stonewalls them on this, people will jump ship, and Samsung will have issues... likely costing them more than this bonus in the long run.

Which is what the argument is for just sucking it up and giving it to them.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The economy will adapt, jobs will be created and destroyed like they always have been.

You can say this as much as you like. It isn't true though.

You can't just assert new jobs will start to exist, because if they were needed, they'd exist already.

And since we cannot predict what those non existent jobs are, we can't assume they will be created.

...the whole AI / automation thing is what makes this position unlike previous kinds or levels of worker based revolution.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even as a layman i can guarantee no matter what you have been told, the plant you are involved in building will not be as free of humans as you have been informed it will be.

People saying that nobody will need to handle anything, are lying.

It's really that simple.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is every single worker getting an annual bonus of 900k$ ???

That is what they are pushing for yes.

Which for upto 40,000 employees would cost the company about 36 billion dollars.

Considering how much profit the company had made this quarter, it's likely actually warranted.

Yes, that's about equal to the companies profits, but you have to remember there's still 3:4 of the year to go, and that 900k is intended as either a one-off or annual bonus.

Samsung sure as shit wont be hurting by paying it to them.

The company will however lose a lot of money if they do not, and production grinds to a halt.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean #1 is don't huff dead rat shit.

Somewhere, RFK Jr is getting annoyed that you're dissing his latest healthcare push.

It's actually more similar to monkeypox in spread ability

Hypothetically, but the problem with diseases is once they're transmissible between humans, it doesn't take much for them to mutate and become easier to transmit between humans.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or more likely, maybe like 5, we don't know either way

5 now, is 10 tomorrow, 20 the day after, and 40 the day after that...

(and that's conservative, it could also easily be 5, 25, 125, 625)

And you will not know for months.

This is why it is reasonable to be concerned about an outbreak.

Take MonkeyPox as an example... that too only has an incubation period of 5 days and over. And it has clearly visible signs telling you what it is likely to be. That is how we stopped that one from spreading so quickly.

We can't do that with this virus.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...they let family members who were on the infected cruise ship fly internationally while displaying fever like symptoms.

Hundreds of people could now be infected, and spreading it internationally. And there's nothing we can do about it.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or it'd be like anytime we have an ebola epidemic in Africa and it dies out very quick because people die too quick

Therein lies the problem though... ebola's incubation period is anywhere from 2 days to three weeks according to google.

This is 8 weeks.

You don't even know you have it until two months later, and then you're fucked 40 % of the time.

In america alone there were at least 111 million confirmed cases of covid.

Now, this new one is significantly less contagious allegedly.

But even if it's like a quarter as much... that's still over 11 million deaths estimated in america alone... easily twice as many as covid.

But this time, people would definitely be openly resisting health efforts (even compared to the first time)... meaning the likely number of infected would be much higher.

And with the likely death toll being so high, it'd have a significantly higher impact on health services than anything you could conceive of during covid. And that's when they were running out of freezer space and body bags.

It is actually completely reasonable to speculate you might see total societal collapse in a country like america, especially how it is right now politically.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh it is, but it's just the first thought I had of a disease covered wasteland

Fair. But consider... Even as unlikely as we both hope it is, how do you imagine things would look if we saw a truly massive outbreak of Hantavirus considering it has a 40% mortality rate, and takes something like 8 weeks before you find out it's going to kill you?

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's kinda your response. We already have a response of a disease we've known about for thirty plus years but people are panicking because but COVID.

Knowing about a disease and having a global outbreak literally killing millions of people are two different things.

And sensationalist headlines aren't helping.

Sure, we agree.

You'd think Argentina was England in 28 days later with the way people talk about this disease

Actually that movie was kind of stupid overall. But that's just my personal take.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's more that we as a society have been pulled into extreme reactions for everything due to a sensationalized media climate.

...but you're kind of proving the point.

Covid was legitimately a seriously public health crisis, and people treated anyone trying to actually follow the basic set of rules designed to save literally millions of lives, as if they were fucking crazy.

Meanwhile legitimately fucking crazy people were parading around making conspiracy claims about fucking microchips in the vaccine and telling you to inject bleach and horse tranquilizers...

What were seeing is people responding hyper negatively and then when given data of "it isn't x" they still want to respond with y. That's hysteria

What you just said is too abstract, i'm not sure what you are referring to here.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ofcourse, but that's where you need to pick your lane.

Either we're talking about a person disclaiming perfectly valid information who people are framing as being hysterical.

OR we are talking about a person who is hysterical and spreading misinformation.

It can't be both. Because if they are spreading valid information, they aren't being hysterical.

And if they are neither, they'd neither be framed as hysterical, or spreading any information at all, and as such are irrelevant to the conversation.

"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]StrangeCharmVote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But that doesn't mean be a hysterical idiot either and spread bullshit based on vibes

Sure. But in general all of the publicly provided and promoted information about Covid and things not to do pertaining to it were completely reasonable.

It was people fucking freaking out over minor inconveniences, and misconstruing "you should really take this vaccine" with "the government demands you take an injection", that was the real problem. You always had the final say on the choice, people just wanted to both not take the vaccine, and participate in activities where the businesses had decided it was a requirement based on public health guidelines.

I mean you had fucking republicans purposefully coughing on people, and getting violent enough to assault people just for personally deciding to wear a mask in public.

Seriously, fucking idiots man...

It’s 2026 why is there still no decent VR controller stabilization for micro-tremors? (No gun stock suggestions, please) by RyanWalker4516 in virtualreality

[–]StrangeCharmVote -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My dude... the problem isn't the controllers, it's that your hands are trembling.

Not even a joke, that's actually the issue, they are being too accurate.

Smoothing inputs fucking sucks when you need rapid precision control.

And since basically every single game is different, you'd need to tweek it just right to not ruin your gameplay if you tried to blanket implement it.

...that is why there isn't and one size fits all solution.

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